Volu 9 Chapter 3 - Male and Female (Part 1-3)
Part 1
“However I’m really troubled here if you don’t treasure us a little more as comrades that fought together on the sa side. Even though we ca to help and trying to stop those Germans from going wild, there is my comrade that just got left to die without any help and fell into magic intoxication for all that. That’s just really heartless ain’t it―. And then there is no thanks or apology at all, you guys looks like you are just completely concerned about those German bunch only, yeah―”
A rare guest was visiting the Witch’s Mansion.
That person was securing the position right in front of the Phantasmagoria where it was the easiest spot to watch the show in the living room. The person was earnestly complaining and spouting sarcasm while gulping down the served cookies and black tea.
“Mu… this cookie! I said many selfish things to that old man Yamagata and got him to feed with various high class food, but this cookie is the tastiest I have gotten to eat until now… It looks simple sohow, but there is this good feeling that it was made courteously. It feels like a mom’s cookie. Seconds!”
That person shalessly held out the plate that had beco empty to the [server].
“Then please enjoy.”
Kazuki took the plate and placed a second helping. The one who brew the black tea was Mio, but the one that baked the cookies was Kazuki. …After hearing the word mom, there was still a complicated feeling gushing out from him.
“Hauu―…even though it’s Otouto-kun’s cookie that was baked for us… because of the sudden visitor the portion for each person decreased completely…”
Kaguya-senpai fell prostrate on the table.
The rare guest―was Ryouzanpaku’s Roshouko. From the wild jacket and denim pants that she wore, it showed her figure in civilian clothes with her skin that was burned healthily exposed, giving off the impression of her southerner origin.
She looked wild but her instinct was sharp, she was strangely proficient at bargaining―she gave off the impression that she was soone he mustn’t let his guard down against.
“Shouko-san, how can you act this freely?”
Originally she was not a person that was supposed to be left alone too much to do as she pleased. She was friendly but, she was similar to the Kings that ca from the outside, a powerful warrior that was a match for a thousand. It was strange that she was monitored by the country.
“You don’t really need to worry, after all my comrade is hospitalized in Japan’s Knight Order’s facility y’know?”
Shouko-san shrugged her shoulder and answered.
“I’m not gonna do anything suspicious okay. I begged to Old man Yamagata to let go play, if I try to do sothing then it’s fine for them to just kill off Silirat. It’s the opposite way of thinking.”
I’ll give you my comrade as hostage so let do as I please―opposite way of thinking or whatever, such a shaless reason wasn’t supposed to be accepted. But he guessed that Commander Yamagata couldn’t really reject her so strongly.
Before, Silirat intervened to help Kaguya-senpai that fell into a predicant because of Germans running wild, and because the girl fell into magic intoxication from that fight, right now these girls were perfectly in the position of a good willed injured party.
By making the rampaging Germans into their common enemy, it also could beco a good chance to deepen the relation between Japan and Ryouzanpaku.
But as for Kazuki―he didn’t want to turn Germany into an enemy.
First he wanted to ask the circumstances why Beatrix rampaged around like that.
As for Silirat’s action, who was going to add more injury to Eleonora whose magic power was gone, without even asking about the circumstances, although they said it was for the sake of helping Japan’s side… that was sothing that he couldn’t thank them for.
Due to that Japan’s attitude toward Ryouzanpaku was still in the air until Beatrix and the others woke up.
Shouko was dissatisfied with this stance that compromised with Germany rather than Ryouzanpaku who was supposed to be their comrade in standing together against Chukadou.
“So, why does Shouko-san who beca free co to this place?”
“It’s Old man Yamagata’s public stage after all, so I was thinking to watch it with everyone like this. Co on, it’s beginning see. …Hyaa―, they really make a spectacle eh.”
Shouko-san amusedly pointed at the Phantasmagoria while biting at the cookie.
{Regarding the east and west war that was suddenly tied with a cease-fire agreent, the General Staff Headquarters Vice Chief Yamagata Koyata of the Knight agency opened an urgent press conference. We are now broadcasting from the Asaka garrison of the Knight Order.}
Along with the stiff voice of the announcer that was colored with nervousness, the Asaka garrison where many knights were forming a tight line there was projected in the Phantasmagoria. The avatars of Solomon 72 Pillar were floating at the back of the knights in a line. What Shouko-san called as a spectacle was surely about this rather than the knights itself.
In the center, there was Commander Yamagata with his best serious expression.
No, should he call him General Staff Headquarters Vice Chief now?
So that the household that didn’t have the Phantasmagoria could also watch, this announcent could also be watched on flat television. It was the consideration so that this announcent could be conveyed to all the people of this country without fail.
“Le, what’s with these avatars of the 72 Pillar?”
Kazuki asked Le who was gulping down cookies with a vigor that didn’t lose or was inferior to Shouko.
“It’s just a show. With this the persuasiveness toward the people will increase right? Everyone of this country loves the 72 Pillar after all.”
In Japan the people were not obligated to be faithful to Divas, rather the 72 Pillar was loved like idols.
The announcent from now on was sothing supported by the 72 Pillar. If they appealed with that kind of setting, the way the people received it would greatly change.
“Still I wonder why it’s old man Yamagata that does this? For this kind of thing, the highest big shot… in this country it’s the Knight agency’s minister right, shouldn’t it be more logical for that guy to be the one that does this?”
Shouko-san was talking while sowhat making fun of it along with sending a sidelong glance at Kazuki. It looked like she was looking for an answer from Kazuki. He felt her nastiness that was trying to test him. Kazuki answered.
“This too might be a show. Today, what will be announced here will be more persuasive if it’s said by a person that was actually there.”
Originally Vice Chief Yamagata was the commander of Shizuoka regint that was located in the front line of the east-west war. He fought along with Kazuki till the end and accomplished a promotion in this occasion.
Because Kazuki’s active role was not made public, in the society the achievents from the battle against Yamato were all assigned to Vice Chief Yamagata. Of course the person himself didn’t wish for that, but…
In the eye of society, he was without a doubt a hero.
{…It’s exactly as has been reported, the diation of the other Magic Advanced Countries was the impetus behind the sudden ceasefire of the east-west war. It was a diation on the basis of the logic of a mythological country.}
Vice Chief Yamagata got the ball of the press conference rolling with a grave tone of voice.
{Their logic disregard the historical legitimacy that we own and stated that the one that should govern this Japanese archipelago is the mythologically legitimate King―the Basileus. Because of that the dispute between our country and Yamato will be settled not by war, but by looking at who can gather the King’s symbol―the Three Sacred Treasures the fastest. Regarding this matter, I think it will make all of you the people of this country beco terribly uneasy of this course of events that cannot be understood at all looking from the sense of values of our country, but this matter until the end is sothing for the sake of obtaining the international acknowledgnt.}
Sothing for the sake of obtaining the international acknowledgnt―in other words it was not sothing absolute.
They still did the Three Sacred Treasures gathering for the sake of obtaining the acknowledgnt from the other countries, but if they lost in that endeavor they still wouldn’t withdraw so easily, it was that kind of thing.
If the situation is moving to the destruction of the country, we the governnt plan to continue our battle of resistance while telling sothing like international acknowledgent that they could go and eat sheet. That was what was indirectly said here.
{Here I reported that the struggle for the Three Sacred Treasures between the two camps of Japan and Yamato had co to an end.}
The journalists that filled the interview hall were making a stir.
{With ! Open String Release SouKaicho Kaikon―Gate of Divine CrossingKamiwatari no Mon!”
Yasakani no Magatama that was wrapped on Ikousai’s left hand naturally untied and floated on the air while enlarging.
Inside that giant string beca a pitch black another dinsion and it absorbed Ikousai.
Yasakani no Magatama shrank down in the air and vanished. Suddenly, Kazuki’s opponent disappeared.
“Is that the warp ability like the ti help ca for Hel!?”
Kazuki strengthened his perceptions and paid attention to his surroundings.
Ikousai’s magic power had perfectly disappeared.
No matter how fast an enemy he faced, Kazuki was able to Foresight them.
But against an enemy that was not fast but warped instead?
Magic power flipped behind Kazuki and without any ti to dodge a slash was dealt to him.
While receiving an impact from the smashed magic that made him stagger forward, Kazuki swept A no Murakumo while turning his body.
At that ti Yasakani no Magatama that was floating in the air―the entrance to another dinsion had already absorbed Ikousai’s body inside and vanished.
The body of Yasakani no Magatama itself also shrank and vanished, A no Murakumo slashed empty air.
Ikousai disappeared again.
She was right now located in an another dinsion. He couldn’t Foresight at all where she would appear next.
He couldn’t sense the magic power of another dinsion or the like!
“O piling up wisdom in human history, beco the armor that armored my body in several layer! Heavily, thickly, reject every brutality! Seusenhofer!!”
Kazuki prepared for the attack that he didn’t know when it would co and deployed defensive magic. He poured magic power into Zekorbeni and set up a thick armor on his whole body.
Imdiately his armor was broken. He received an attack that was impossible to Foresight from behind.
By the ti he turned back, Ikousai was already vanishing.
Both evasion and counterattack didn’t make it in ti.
…There was no other way than to sense the magic power when she ca out for even an instant faster and react.
Kazuki concentrated his mind and guarded against the magic power that he didn’t know when it would co.
―A magic power at his back once again!
Kazuki tried to escape from the slash right away.
But while he was still in an unsightly posture of frantically twisting his body, he was cut down by Ikousai.
…He didn’t make it. She was just too fast from when she appeared and then attacking.
“Hahaha, run around more! You pitiful worm!!”
Ikousai laughed scornfully while once again disappearing into another dinsion.
“…So this is the power of the Sacred Treasure she has.”
He wouldn’t be able to escape if he couldn’t react more instantaneously…
If he didn’t overco this wall then he wouldn’t be able to fight properly.
No, even if he could avoid the slash and counterattacked, there was still the auto-defense of [Mizukagami no Tate].
If he didn’t surpass that wall too, his attacks wouldn’t have any effect at all.
Warp and auto-defense. If he didn’t surpass these two walls simultaneously…
An unpleasant sweat flowed down his forehead.
“The Three Sacred Treasures each have the power of offense?defense?movent!”
She appeared at his back and slashed him once more. [Seusenhofer] beca hacked to pieces and vanished.
Ikousai disappeared while leaving behind a yelling voice.
“Yata no Kagami is defense, Yasakani no Magatama is movent! Offense is A no Murakumo, but… if defense and movent are perfect then an opponent can be made to not do anything and get shutout completely!”
While receiving damage without any way to get out from the situation, Kazuki asked at the vanishing Ikousai.
“In this short ti period, how can you beco this skillful in using the Sacred Treasures?”
She appeared at Kazuki’s back once more and answered while slashing her blade.
“…That’s because I have been mostly Susanoo himself! There is no way Susanoo cannot use these Three Sacred Treasures skillfully!! Solomon King… I’m already waking up to the power as the King of Japanese Mythology!!”
Kazuki was slashed helplessly.
He couldn’t call her cowardly. Hit and run―it was a way of fighting that perfectly sealed the opponent.
“But that doesn’t an that my offense is incomplete! Right now, part of my body is becoming Susanoo!! The herculean strength of god that is unrivaled under the sky!!”
The willowy woman clad in Japanese clothes, Ikousai was having one of her arm changing into the muscular arm of a giant. Certainly a single attack from that was heavy.
“…You are already not even Aisu Ikousai or anyone anymore huh.”
“What a foolish sore loser! I’m only using everything that I possessed skillfully!!”
Ikousai appeared and vanished many tis over as if her existence itself was turning into an illusion. Only realistic and certain slashes were left behind.
“Thunder fall on my body and I obtain lightning thought and god speed… awaken the sleeping lion! Ride Lightning!”
While Kazuki kept being slashed he invoked strengthening magic for the ti being so the ti wasn’t wasted in vain. His physical ability was strengthened electrifyingly. Though right now there was no way he could put it to use.
“Thy rage beco the happiness of the war Shrine Maiden! Answer the Kagura of soul invitation and break out storm of outcry, split the cloud and please descend here. The spirits and demons in this body! Super Strength InvitationChouryoku Shourai!!
Ikousai also invoked a strengthening magic. She was chanting while crossing another dinsion and attacking.
“This won’t drag out any longer!”
Her strike’s heaviness increased even more. Ikousai imdiately dashed once more into another dinsion.
Saying it in reverse, right now Ikousai was also unable to sense the magic power on this side.
Think of a breakthrough solution. …On the contrary if Ikousai was already feeling relieved from discovering just a single winning pattern, then the breakthrough from this situation would beco a chance at the sa ti.
There was an aspect of Ikousai that was like that. He could say confidently that she hated to doubt her victory.
In contrast, no matter how cornered he was, he still had countless magic in reserve. Without doubt there was supposed to be the correct solution among these options. He was able to believe that there was a possibility of victory no matter what kind of disadvantageous situation he was in.
‘Are you still continuing to think even at the other side of that another dinsion…?’
Kazuki was slashed many tis over.
But while being slashed, he was pondering.
“…O desire that lurk in the sea of heart, that hand reach out passing through the deeply sinful flesh. O incarnation of violation entangle following the desire. Desire Tentacle.”
Kazuki silently chanted a magic that he thought would likely beco necessary. It was a magic he could freely manipulate that grew out tentacles from inside the ground. ―Kazuki made the produced tentacles to not break out from the ground so that it was on standby inside the earth.
Ikousai that was inside another dinsion didn’t notice that he was chanting a tentacle magic. She was similar to his side that was unable to sense the magic power of the other side.
The instant Ikousai appeared in this world, she would be captured by tentacles in a surprise attack.
…It was still impossible. He still needed so more conditions. He was still unable to even evade her attack. His reaction was just too slow, surely by the ti the tentacles appeared Ikousai would be already gone.
He was slashed again. He was concentrating at his pondering, but Ikousai’s slash was by no ans light. Rather, his magic power was shaved off steadily and his remaining ti was rapidly shortening.
Think. What was needed was an even more sensitive sensor.
A sensor to detect the opponent’s appearance. Kazuki didn’t have that kind of magic. He had never used sothing like that in all of his battles until now, so Ikousai also roughly knew about that aspect of him.
But if he changed his point of view for his currently existing magic…
“Mode?Phoenix!”
Kazuki switched to Phoenix’s dress. Kazuki’s Magic Dress transford from the silver suit to a fla armor.
“Burn to ash all that you touch… the scorching heat of rejection without any place to depend on! Self Burning!”
He poured magic power in the amount more than what was needed originally into Zekorbeni and invoked a low level magic.
A fla in the amount that was incomparable with when he was using [Self Burning] normally was completely covering Kazuki’s whole body.
Excessively large amounts of fla―he manipulated that with his will―he stretched out the fla like a net to his surrounding in a 360° angle.
For the fla to be manipulated by his will ant that the fla got across to Kazuki’s mind. This fla passed through his nerves and was close to being a part of his body.
It was hard to detect a generation of magic power in a space where there was nothing and react imdiately. He would be late no matter what.
But reacting imdiately when sothing was touching his body could be done instantly if he was watching out for it.
And then, for the sake of surpassing the two walls―he needed one more thod.
Think.
Ikousai appeared―right in the middle of the net of fla.
Right there! Kazuki imdiately reacted as if his body was directly hit.
“This is!?” Ikousai raised a shocked voice from being so suddenly caught inside fla.
But there was not much of damage from the fla that was spread out thin. She didn’t even pay it any heed and swung her blade.
The reaction that Kazuki imdiately took was not an evasive action.
A large amount of tentacles overflowed out breaking the ground with a thunderous sound, it entangled Ikousai who was floating in the air and bound her hands and feet.
“Guh-!?” Ikousai raised an agitated voice.
Kazuki turned his body while swinging his blade.
Not at Ikousai―the blade ran through his own left wrist.
He had removed his own left hand’s defensive magic. Fresh blood scattered at the sa ti while he was turning back.
It was his last hand for the sake of overcoming the second wall.
Kazuki directed his left hand at Ikousai and spurted out his blood. Blood spurt was reflected on Mizukagami no Tate at Ikousai’s hand, At that mont in order to protect Ikousai from the spilled blood, Mizukagami no Tate pulled Ikousai’s arm on its own accord and defended automatically.
It was blocked. The entirety of the blood was blocked by Mizukagami no Tate.
Mizukagami no Tate was dirtied. …At this mont, Ikousai was not paying attention to that fact.
“Just tentacles on this degree!”
With the right arm that was transford into a giant, she tore apart the tentacles with brute force before trying to cut away at the tentacles by swinging around her katana with her right arm that had obtained freedom. After all it was just tentacles from a level 2 magic. If Susanoo’s herculean strength was exerted it wouldn’t pose any challenge at all.
With a hair breadth timing Kazuki stabbed A no Murakumo and blocked Ikousai’s katana. The situation beca a sword locking contest with him protecting the tentacles from being cut away.
Ikousai noticed how Mizukagami no Tate didn’t react and for the first ti a look of impatience floated on her expression. And then she noticed―how the mirror didn’t reflect anything from being dirtied by blood.
“O august god that call the storm, please bestow thy breath on my back that is dancing under the heaven! Fuujin Kenbu!!”
Ikousai invoked reinforcent magic while locking her sword with Kazuki. It was a magic that accelerated her every single action by manipulating the wind freely.
But her objective was not acceleration, she was attempting to wipe away the blood that dirtied Mizukagami no Tate with wind.
“O stream of atmosphere, converge on this body, beco the storm that reject the hated person! The eye of the typhoon is exactly my throne! Storm Fort!”
Kazuki who had read ahead that Ikousai was going to do that had also began to chant ahead and invoked the magic at the sa ti. It was a defensive magic that manipulated the wind freely and defended against enemy’s attack.
But his objective was not defense. He collided the wind at Ikousai’s manipulated wind from the opposite direction. He neutralized the wind that was trying to wipe away the blood and also trying to keep the blood staying on the mirror surface.
It beca a double layered sword locking contest―an entanglent of blade and blade that was trying break each other’s sword stance, and also wind against wind that entangled with each other twisting and bending in various directions trying to outwit each other.
He wouldn’t let her bisect the tentacles. He wouldn’t let her wipe off the blood on the mirror.
Both of them manipulated their respective blade and wind with a do-or-die spirit. This mont was exactly the mont that Kazuki had been waiting for.
“…You Susanoofake King of Japanese Mythology! This is the victory of the King of Solomon’s power! Even I am already awakening to the power of my bond!”
Just a mont was enough. He drove magic power into Zekorbeni―and invoked magic instantaneously.
“O undying bird that repeated life and death, burn that body and liberate the last fla, beco the sun of the surface…! Imitation Flare!!”
Level 8 magic he could invoke from his bond with Mio―between Kazuki and Ikousai who were unfolding a double layered sword locking contest, the avatar of the immortal bird was floating, it liberated all of the fla in its body and turned into a small pseudo sun. That energy of light and heat possessed directionality and it advanced in Ikousai’s direction.
The Mizukagami no Tate reflected nothing.
“UOOO…!?” Ikousai was burned entirely together with the tentacles by the colossal heat. Her defensive magic power was smashed up. The blood evaporated and the stain on Mizukagami no Tate was sticking onto the mirror even more.
While her body was ablaze Ikousai finally succeeded in running away into the entrance of Yasakani no Magatama.
Kazuki maintained the fla sensor and stretched it out to his surroundings.
In order to escape from that range, Ikousai appeared far separated from the distance of sword range.
“The blessing of Susanoo o , cover the surface and show the power that smash and devastate violently…Heitei Banrai!!”
She invoked a large scale attack magic at the sa ti with her reappearance.
It was a high speed chanting due to her possessed assimilation with Susanoo.
Dark clouds hung over the clear blue sky overhead in the blink of an eye, lightning cloud and lightning cloud clashed with each other and made it rained down lightning. It was a magic that didn’t give any place to escape even if he Foresigthed it. But―
“So you throw away yourself as a swordsman huh Ikousai! That’s pointless! Battou Kaikon―Kusanagi no Tsurugi!!”
With A no Murakumo, Kazuki mowed down the downpour of lightning.
With that one sweep―an invincible blade that was like a soundless wind bisected all the lightning and lightning clouds with one slash and made them all disappear. Witnessing the power of A no Murakumo that was finally made apparent, Ikousai’s eyes opened wide in shock.
In panic Ikousai tried to escape to another dinsion.
“Mode?rfolk!!”
But before she could do that―Kazuki instantly had Zekorbeni switched. The fla armor changed into water feather robe. He poured magic power at the sa ti into Zekorbeni.
“Ti turn painting circle, the history is repeated inevitably, awaken the forgotten era right here… leave behind everything into inside the dream, toward the era of glacier! Ice Age!!”
Ikousai who was going to escape into Yasakani no Magatama that was floating in the air froze instantly altogether with the space. Her defensive magic power was smashed up and Ikousai’s muscle instantly stiffened.
Kazuki ran. He closed the distance in an instant and swung A no Murakumo at the frozen space.
“Carry the mystery in the blade crest, ! Battou Kaikon―Tsumugari no Tachi!!”
The chill that spread out widely in all the space was compressed into the blade of A no Murakumo.
The blade where the compressed chill was residing―was slashed diagonally at Ikousai who was freezing in place from her shoulder.
Ikousai barely moved Susanoo’s right arm in ti and blocked the attack with her katana.
A terrific impact was generated.
―It was not only a clash between blade and blade, extrely low temperature was conducted instantly through the blade, turning the tal’s crystalline structure brittle where it was going to break.
The defensive magic power of Ikousai that extended until her blade was magically trying to neutralize this cooling pulverization phenonon. Ikousai’s defensive magic power was smashed up in large amount just in an instant.
―That reflectionrecoil. From the impact of an enormous smashed magic, the body of Ikousai who was moving her foot to another dinsion was blown away. He would continue like this and end this in one go―just like in his battle with Hel.
“Tenrou Kaidan!”
Ikousai’s body, that he thought was going to collapse onto the ground just like that got up as if she was rebounding on an invisible spring and she adjusted her stance for a counterattack.
Ikousai’s original magic technique! Kazuki who aid for a pursuing attack was taken by surprise.
Her explosive thought in regard with the unexpected situation that was happening to her―as expected, Ikousai was an excellent swordsman.
At the sa ti―Ikousai’s figure changed.
“Hand over more power Susanoo! In exchange… I don’t care even if you plunder more!!”
Ikousai’s trademark Japanese clothes disintegrated into Prima Materia and transford into a completely different jet black costu. It was exactly the sa like carving the avatar of Susanoo onto her body.
Susanoo’s power of existence that was suppressed into just Ikousai’s right arm ran amok into Ikousai’s whole body. He felt vast magic power was going crazy at the inside of her skin.
Ikousai―liberated that in the shape of magic.
“O young noble of storm, set free all of that violent emotion right here!”
It was a reinforcent magic―it was also in a level that he had never seen before until now.
Kazuki was able to Foresight the invoked magic but―his body had already begun to move in a pursuing attack.
He couldn’t stop.
Kazuki accelerated using [Level 6Custom Liberion] and [Level 5Ride Lightning] while [Level 8Ice Age]’s cold was compressed inside the blade of A no Murakumo, he unleashed a thrust with all that.
He didn’t expect Ikousai to have put her stance in order, but there shouldn’t be anything to criticize in this single attack of his.
“Residing in my body, make another showing of the tragedy of the heavensTakamagahara!!”
While chanting reinforcent magic, Ikousai threw away Yata no Kagami and thrust out her left fist.
The katana gripped in her right hand was still repelled because of the impact from before.
In desperation she was only swinging her left arm―it was kind of like a left straight.
But the instant his blade and her fist collided, Ikousai’s unknown reinforcent magic was invoked.
It was the ultimate reinforcent magic.
“Tyrannical God of Military ArtsBougyaku Bushin!!!!”
For an instant he hallucinated Ikousai’s left fist turn gigantic.
KAA-* A flash of the collision between magic powers―Kazuki’s body was blown away. He received a hard blow that unbelievably overmatched his attack and hit him, Kazuki opened his eyes wide unable to believe what just happened.
Ikousai took a further step forward at the direction of the blown away Kazuki. *DOSHIN!* The earth shook. This ti she raised her right hand that was holding her katana tightly―and swung it down.
He was unable to take any evasive motion or defense at all.
It was a completely dreadful slashing attack that he had never experienced personally before. The blade was pushed into his body diagonally starting from his shoulder.
[Custom Liberion] burst and scattered leaving none of its original shape behind.
His defensive magic power burst open and Kazuki’s body was blown away for many ters through Sekigahara.
…He was safe. He is still living. While lying down on the ground, Kazuki reflexively thought like that.
It was a blow that for an instant made him unable to think that he was protected by a defensive magic power.
What the hell, with that power… so that’s Susanoo’s full power!
“UAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!”
It was not the blown away Kazuki, but Ikousai who was raising a shriek that sounded like she was completely in agony.
She was trembling clatteringly looking like she was unable to suppress what was inside her body.
But even while trembling she kicked the ground powerfully and ran at Kazuki who was lying down on the ground.
Once again, that strong sword with hard to believe power was raised up.
…It would be bad to be hit with that kind of destructive power in succession.
No, he couldn’t get hit again for even one more ti with that!
With the table turned, this ti it was Kazuki that was cornered. Ikousai was approaching with the speed of a raging wave.
With his thought working explosively in an instant―at that instant, Kazuki thought it fortunate that currently he was clad in [Mode?rfolk]. Without his date with Koyuki he would get killed here.
“Moves in the Field!!”
With a prompt judgnt, Kazuki pulled out the most optimum solution.
His blue feather robe shined, Kazuki froze the surrounding ground surface.
Ikousai had never seen this magic. Also Kazuki invoked the magic just too fast for Ikousai to predict that it would turn out like this, and then currently she had also lost her presence of mind. Ikousai’s foot that was treading powerfully on the ground while raising her katana overhead, slipped. All of that power turned into nothing.
“What the!?”
While falling down, even so Ikousai was still swinging down her katana in desperation. Because she did that right after flopping down, the edge of that attack didn’t reach Kazuki.
“Impossible… reach! Shiraha Kagerou!!”
The instant he thought it wouldn’t reach, with that secret technique Ikousai extended the length of her katana.
But this ti Kazuki was not surprised. He had already rembered that his opponent was a swordsman in the level that could do such a thing. Taking a precise half-step back, he saw off the tips of the elongated katana passing him away with paper thin difference.
And then in a counterattack he took a step forward.
“ “UOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-!!” ” Both of them yelled at the sa ti.
As if scooping up the falling down Ikousai, Kazuki raised the A no Murakumo that was filled with a condensed cold.
Their offensive powers were mutually inflated. This ti it was Ikousai who was blown away with a single strike.
“Te, Tenrou Kaidan!” Ikousai’s body that was blown away rebounded back at him.
But Kazuki didn’t swing his katana completely. He imdiately reversed his blade and laid in wait, able to swing a second slash any ti. The Tenrou Kaidan with its movent read was the sa as if coming to offer herself to beco a sandbag.
Even faster than Ikousai’s counterattack, Kazuki swung down his second slash. Her defensive magic power was pulverized. This ti Ikousai didn’t use Tenrou Kaidan and turned into a sorsault before rolling on the ground.
He wouldn’t allow any counterattack at all and kept beating her! Kazuki drew closer to Ikousai with A no Murakumo that still carried the compressed cold in it in his hand.
“Susanoo!” Ikousai yelled.
“Susanoo, give more! Hand over more power!!”
“Stop Ikousai! You are really going to lose yourself at this rate!”
Ikousai had already reached the limit where she was just barely suppressing the power. If she continued to invite Susanoo into her any more than this, she will be consud completely…!!
“GUAAAAAAAAAAAAA-! SUSANOOOOOOO!!”
Ikousai who was lying on the ground sprang up her whole body as if the blood flow throughout her body was boiling up, she was struggling. From her right arm that had been changed into Susanoo himself, a muddy black magic power was overflowing out and went to encroach into Ikousai’s body. In the blink of an eye the color and texture of her skin was changing. Her body was being converted into a totally different bone structure and muscle. She was becoming a male god with flawless darkish skin.
She couldn’t control it at all.
Ikousai herself let escaped a breath of dread “Hyii-!” witnessing the transformation from her neck to her lower body.
But once a Diva had been presented with a flesh body, they wouldn’t stop anymore even if their host lost their nerve. Ikousai who imdiately relied on Susanoo from her fear of defeat already didn’t have any willpower left to oppose that.
Ikousai was going to vanish if it kept like this.
Altogether with her sword art’s technique that she had bet her life all this ti to temper.
“Stop it Ikousai, don’t you lose that!”
Kazuki spontaneously shouted.
He loved sword art. He had respect for soone that worked hard in swordsmanship.
Kazuki was… he had recognized Ikousai as his rival, he respected her skill, he noticed that in a sense he fell in love.
He earnestly sympathized towards Ikousai’s strength, he felt respect and affection.
That Ikousai, right now, her figure that was going to completely throw herself away for the sake of her longing to beco strong was sothing that he absolutely wouldn’t accept, no matter what.
Muster out the strength for the sake of protecting!
Kazuki’s mind tensed in that instant and he concentrated.
The body moved naturally. With a movent that didn’t have even a single futility in it he took a step forward.
…What Kanae worked out, that technique!
Finally Susanoo’s magic power completely eroded everywhere of the body below the neck and it fully covered the face of Ikousai that painted the look of terror. The last stronghold of the existence called Ikousai, when even that fell then Ikousai’s everything would be changed into the god of rage.
The timing, that would beco the cornerstone of Susanoo’s encroachnt.
With a motion that had been honed, Kazuki swung down A no Murakumo.
That was the most ultimate movent that the flesh body could possibly build. The motion was different from Hayashizaki Kanae’s optimum movent, an optimum movent solution that was only his. Added to that, with a perfect timing he finally reached it. The gears were shing perfectly with each other.
The single strike that broke down every kind of magic phenonon.
DON!* Sothing shot off from Ikousai’s body―and vanished. The pitch black magic power that eroded Ikousai’s body was torn off, broken down, and evacuated back to Astrum.
“…Ju… just now… what kind of technique that…?”
Ikousai who was a researcher of the sword asked that as the first thing even while sprawling down.
The duel was decided. Kazuki answered while slowly pointing out the tip of his sword right before her eyes.
“Hayashizaki-style Dream Sword the Second, Shin’iki. The highest peak of Japan’s sword art, that my little sister worked out. …Recognize your defeat, Ikousai. Both as the King of Yamato, and also as a swordsman.”
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